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Video4Skype Renamed

July 8, 2005 03:15 PM

Topics: Developers | Skype News | Skype Partner Watch

Spontania has renamed Video4Skype to be Video4IM. The success of Spontania's introduction, which has exceeded 400K downloads, apparently didn't go unnoticed by Skype. I don't know what was involved or what went on behind the scenes. Don't know if there was a lot of talking or if the legal papers came out. I know the parties aren't commenting publicly at the moment.

That's unfortunate. I would have liked to tell a story that Skype approached these firms soon after they launched. They couldn't have been talking before and so it caught both teams by surprise.

There's a lesson in here for other developers and for Skype. It's a story that could affect more than one developer. There are many Skype software products emerging or available with Skype used in the name.

Their new API Guidlines make it a lot clearer. Still I know it has thrown some products that are nearing release for a loop. Skype needs to make this aspect of product developement easy to talk through for developers. For if they can't piggyback effectively on Skype, then what are they developing for?

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La empresa Dialcom, creadora del añadido para el programa Skype, que permite realizar videoconferencia sobre este programa, ha renombrado su programa de Video4Skyp [Read More]

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Posted by: Jim Courtney at July 8, 2005 7:48 PM

So can expect the Santa Cruz Networks people to be renaming vSkype (which has also had six figure downloads). This would really tell how tight is the link via their mutual VC.

Posted by: Paul Jardine at July 8, 2005 11:21 PM

Does this mean vSkype's days are numbered (as vSkype)?
What it tells me is that Skype are definitely working on the video feature themselves (they can't really afford not to, it's either that or buy one of the others).
Given the rest of the situation, i.e. lack of any major new functionality, poor attention to front-end, I also get the feeling it is causing them some problems, and sucking up their development resources

Posted by: Bill Campbell at July 9, 2005 9:17 AM

Hey Jim and Paul!

Actually both Dialcom and Santa Cruz Networks have a mutual VC with Skype. Watch for a story in this space tomorrow night.

And Paul I suspect you are correct on the numbering of days. (smile)

Regards, Bill


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